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...that the 1918 flu pandemic - which started among soldiers and eventually killed as many as 40 million - was the result of swine flu (scientists now know it was in fact a strain of bird flu). Despite modern advances in microbiology, today's health officials still make decisions in a "cloud of uncertainty," Pennington says. "At the moment, our understanding of the current outbreak is similarly limited. For example, we don't yet understand why people are dying in Mexico but not elsewhere." (See pictures of bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of 1976 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Phlox (Mena Suvari), he and the couple go on all sorts of romps. Skinny-dipping, soccer with young children, crazy nights out on the town—Thurber presses the “summer” button again and again. Hours pass lounging at the abandoned “Cloud Factory,” Thurber’s lone and treacly nod to Pittsburgh’s industrial past.But it’s not all fun with Cleve and Jane. As an antidote to the plot’s syrupiness, Thurber plops in a very vinegary element: the mob. References...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist." - On corruption charges against him being dropped before this week's elections. (BBC, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Jacob Zuma, South Africa's New President | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...There is no cloud above my head--there is not even a mist.' JACOB ZUMA, presidential candidate in South Africa, after corruption charges against him were dropped before the April 22 elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...study and get qualified to do something that will be marketable later?" He adds, "I've always thought about going back to school, but I probably wouldn't have done it if I hadn't gotten laid off. This is the silver lining to a pretty ugly cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuition Help for the Unemployed Gains Traction | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

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